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Linux Email: Set up and Run a Small Office Email Server

By : Alistair McDonald, Carl Taylor, David Rusenko, Magnus Back, Patrick Ben Koetter, Ralf Hildebrandt
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Linux Email: Set up and Run a Small Office Email Server

By: Alistair McDonald, Carl Taylor, David Rusenko, Magnus Back, Patrick Ben Koetter, Ralf Hildebrandt

Overview of this book

<p>Many businesses want to run their email servers on Linux, but getting started can be complicated. The attractiveness of a free-to-use and robust email service running on Linux can be undermined by the apparent technical challenges involved.&nbsp; Some of the complexity arises from the fact that an email server consists of several components that must be installed and configured separately, then integrated together. Unlike other approaches that deal with one component at a time, this book gives you a basic knowledge across all the server components, leaving you with a complete working email server for your small business network.<br /> <br /> Based entirely on free, Open Source software, you will see how to protect your server from spam and viruses, offer web access for remote access, and secure your installation with regular backups.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Copyright
Credits
About the Authors
Introduction

Downloading and Installing Courier-IMAP


Courier is a suite of programs, and includes a full-fledged MTA. This book assumes that the MTA used is Postfix. It is important that only the POP3 and IMAP components of Courier are installed and configured—an e-mail system would be very unstable if there were two MTAs operating at once.

There are a couple of ways to install Courier-IMAP. Courier-IMAP Redhat Package Managers (RPMs) for several different distributions of Linux are available. These will either be available from the manufacturer of the distribution, or may have been built by a third party, typically an enthusiast or developer of Courier. If a package of Courier-IMAP is not available in RPM, then it has to be built from source.

Installing Courier-IMAP from RPM...